Profiles

by Marichel Vaught When Brandon Darmstadt was 16 years old and a 10th grader at U-32 High School, he developed a business plan as a school project. His senior year of high school, Darmstadt was approved for a small business loan based on that business plan. Three months after graduating and at the age of […]

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by Nat Frothingham BARRE — Several days ago, I sat down with Carl Hammond at Darwin’s Sew and Vac, a one-man shop that sells and repairs sewing machines and vacuum cleaners. Hammond spoke about how people today buy, use and very often discard a vacuum cleaner that has stopped working only to repeat the cycle […]

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by Rick Winston “We’ll never run out of show ideas,” Bill Morancy would often exult as we’d finish taping a television show called “Talking About Movies” for Onion River Public Access. It was a characteristic expression for Bill — of joy at the prospect of sharing his enthusiasms with the world at large. We didn’t […]

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by Garrett Heaney Happy New Year everybody. If 2015 taught me anything, it is that community, our community, here in Montpelier, has the ability to foster our growth as people, artists and professionals. We are incredibly blessed to share this place we call home and to see the beautiful faces we see when we venture […]

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by Carla Occaso BARRE — Dixie Cichinski of Roxbury was seen walking into the Price Chopper supermarket on the Barre Montpelier Road Sunday wearing shorts, a tank top and a very visible handgun strapped to her body. The Bridge approached her as she was perusing the produce aisle and said, “is that a handgun?” She said, “yes.” […]

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by Carla Occaso Occaso: How long have you lived in Adamant? DeForge: Thirty years. Occaso: How did it come to be that you worked at the Adamant Cooperative store? DeForge: I had been raising my children and having a registered day care. When my children were all in school I wanted to get out and […]